Projects in genres: Fantasy

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Marta and Juan travel to Iraq to uncover the secrets of an abandoned cigarette factory.

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A dark, silent fairytale about a young girl who loves birds, and the very strange thing that happens when she tries to protect a wounded crow from the boys in her village.

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Three intertwining stories explore the effects of mnemophrenia, a new condition arising from the use of advanced Virtual Reality (VR) films, causing the involuntary blending of real and artificial memories, creating an identity crisis. The three main characters, Jeanette, Nicholas and Robyin live in different time periods, all set in the future. They are connected in three ways: by blood; by the condition itself, since they are all mnemophrenics; and by their shared interest in ways that technology affects the human condition.

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Once there was a taxidermist whose collection was his life; and what his life lacked most, he decided, was a Lady. But the Lady in question had other ideas. This campy gothic fairytale hides a sly analogy about how we objectify each other in the post-Tinder world of online dating.

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Nobirds are the “no birds” that sing in Keats’s 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci'. The poem is re-imagined as a computer game where the “knight at arms” and the “belle dame” might win one another if they make the right choices. Real birds as negative images haunt their quest.

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A fairy tale with a magic realist twist, it centres on a mix of emotions and ideas around love, community, isolation and family. Based on a short story, written with the English north-east coast in mind, and in our sometime awful world sets out to be deliberately hopeful.

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Charlie is a zoo-head, addicted to a powerful hallucinogenic with memory crunching side-effects. He is forced by the authorities to enter a radically experimental rehabilitation treatment designed to recover his memories and put his mind back to how it was before he became addicted. The system crashes and he becomes trapped in horrifying memory loops. Haunted by childhood traumas, Charlie’s psyche repeatedly shuts down in defence, only to reboot with increasingly disturbing recurrences. His girlfriend Megan, herself a recovering addict, reveals the depth of her feeling for him and Charlie realises he actually has something precious to live for. But it may be too late as the twists and turns of the extreme visions intensify, potentially destroying his mind for good. Unless the desperate efforts to save him can succeed.

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A bare all Avant-garde homage to silent stag films and pre-code Hollywood.

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After a mysterious electromagnetic pulse renders the world's technology useless, a young girl finds herself isolated and alone with only her father's strict set of rules to keep her alive. Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2019 - World premiere

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The Tate Gallery recently staged a retrospective of the surrealist Leonora Carrington (1917- 2011), famously the lover of Max Ernst. Novelist Chloe Aridjis, who knew the artist from her native Mexico, was made guest curator of the exhibition. Set between the real-life curation of the Tate show and something more fantasised, FEMALE HUMAN ANIMAL sees Chloe increasingly disappointed by her milieu - and increasingly haunted by Carrington’s strange artworks. When an elusive, brooding man seems to offer more, Chloe begins to pursue him, but is she hunter, or hunted? Enabled by Carrington’s own defiantly mysterious mythology, she descends into a world of obsession. Shot on a rare '80s video camera with a unique look, and deftly weaving fact and fiction, the film offers a darkly romantic fantasia of a woman who goes beyond societal norms, putting on screen the lurid unconscious of our new sexual politics. Official Selection BAFICI Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival 2018 - World premiere

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The other universe greys are back abducting earth women led by a returned hive Queen. Bozena desperately wants babies but her earlier Abduction denies her the ability through insemination damage. He man, the good Doctor Asil is determined to find the cloaked flying saucer to gain technology to fix her. Sequel to 'Abduction' A horror/comedy/farce which sees the original characters dance again in a unique tale of Sci-fi parody with more lasers, babies and laughter than the first film.

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When Troy Holloway wakes up to find himself trapped aboard a drifting escape pod shooting towards the Sun he quickly realises the true terror of his situation. With rapid oxygen depletion and a burn- up rate of 90 minutes, Commander Roberts leads a rescue party to save Holloway before time runs out. Having recently lost his son and now confronted by his immediate end, Holloway feels less enthusiastic about survival. But Roberts, speaking to him only through a weak radio transmission, is determined to save his life, and both soon learn that the lives they have both lived influence each other in unexpected ways. Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2018 - World premiere